BLANCA GUERRERO

2019 - 2021

Blanca Guerrero is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Madrid, Spain, and raised in New York City, she received a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Guerrero's work has been exhibited in the United States, Spain, and Japan.

Guerrero creates paintings, collages, vignettes, drawings, and objects in pursuit of an imaginary structure and space. Her work seeks to guide one towards stillness and contemplation.

Blanca Guerrero: Corrientes, a solo exhibition featuring the artist’s new paintings as well as a selection of her recent photographs, was recently on view at 6BASE at Art Cake (OCT 1 - NOV 7, 2020).

Most recently, Guerrero’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition To Sink, Revisited at Court Street Gallery, Brooklyn.

“Our perception of and reaction to diffusing elements in nature such as fog, haze, or the feeling of being submerged in a body of water are moments I have been exploring for a few years now. I see these delicate shifts between elemental states as subtle articulations of impermanence. I am moved by the way that these transient states affect the senses, modify perception of volumes, and alter landscape as well as mind-scape. I am constantly striving to recreate the feeling you get from these moments - both in my process as well as in the final result.

Every one of my works celebrates solitude.

In a way, I am creating works in pursuit of structure and space. It’s not different from the practice of framing, of drawing boundaries around something. I practice intuitively, balancing emotion and chance with intentionality in every piece. Currently, the materials included in my studio practice are water-based paints, washi, graphite, and film photography.”

- Blanca Guerrero

“Many painters speak of seeking a ‘flow-state’ in the studio, of entering into a meditative process where the mind turns off and the decisions seem to be arrived at automatically…Guerrero recognizes that the desire to be meditative can itself become anxiety producing, and incorporates this tension into her works.

Guerrero’s photographs present her audience with a comprehensive entry-point into her paintings…Guerrero employs photography not to preserve what one would typically remember from a scene, but as a point of redirection—she trains the viewer’s focus on that which is often overlooked.”

Continue reading Emmanuel Mauleón’s essay in Blanca Guerrero: To Sink, Revisited